The Crazy Dane

The Danish variation of the famous Crazy Charlie

Anybody can see that the Crazy Dane is really a Crazy Charlie - a very common salt water fly from the U.S. This type of fly is rarely seen in our part of the world, and I know no other fishers that use it. I started out with larger Crazy Charlies used from float tube to imitate small pelagic fish. This is contrary to the American way of using it. The Crazy Charlie is normally a shallow water bottom pattern for flats types of fish. My current version is much smaller and very lightly dressed. When retrieved in small jerks it's the spitting image of a small clear baitfish.
It fishes hook point up which is not really important, as I mostly fish the fly in the free water masses over deeper water.

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